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April 3, 2023 - Sebastian Gorka

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Sebastian Gorka FULL SHOW: President Trump is wheels up to New York

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	Thank you.
	And guys, that's exactly what's going to happen here.
	But Americans are sick and tired of a two-tiered system.
	If I was Hunter Biden, I'd be in jail for the rest of my life.
	Of course.
	I can tell you, Rachel, if you go on my laptop right now, you'll find pictures of Laura, my kids.
	There's going to be no hookers, there's going to be no cocaine, there's going to be no illegal drugs.
	You know, it's going to be nice pictures of my two beautiful Yeah, finger paintings for half a million dollars each.
	Welcome, dear friends.
	Happy Monday, I guess.
	and sells finger paintings.
	Yeah, finger paintings for half a million dollars each.
	Welcome, dear friends.
	Happy Monday, I guess.
	That's Eric Trump at the weekend on Fox News.
	I know Eric Trump.
	He's been on the show quite a few times.
	Last was he walked past our broadcast area at SHOT Show in Vegas and he said hi and I grabbed him and I sat him down in front of the cameras and the microphone and we chatted.
	He's a great proponent of the Second Amendment.
	But that was an unusual interview for him.
	If you weren't watching, if you're just listening, We could hear it in his voice, but you could see in his eyes that...
	That was an emotional statement.
	Now look, I've been there, I've stood in the arena, not for seven years.
	I was there at the beginning of the Trump administration, and they came after me, my wife and my children.
	For those who aren't familiar, there was one scumbag, one gutter press reprobate, who wrote an article about my 18-year-old son, High school age son, in which, and they used his name in the article, the headline called him a traitor.
	So I've been there.
	But not like Eric Trump.
	Not like Donald Trump Jr., not like Melania, not like Barron, and not like President Trump, who has just landed in New York.
	On his way to what?
	Being arraigned tomorrow morning, fingerprinted, photographed for a mugshot by a radical black left-wing district attorney who, after he announced his campaign to go after President Trump, Three days later, was given a million dollars by a foundation that had just received a million dollars from George Soros.
	Yeah, he is one of at least 40 George Soros-funded district attorneys across America who have downgraded felonies to misdemeanors, especially violent felonies, individuals who carjack, Who walk out of department stores with high value items, who use violence, especially against Asians in Manhattan.
	Yeah, if you want to know about racism in America, especially Manhattan, look at who's beating up the poor Asian community.
	It's not MAGA hat wearing white Americans.
	Do a little bit of research for yourself.
	They are going soft on real criminals.
	Hardened criminals with long, long rap sheets.
	But what are they doing with President Trump?
	They're elevating a misdemeanor from seven years ago.
	The statute of limitations of which expired five years ago and by some arcane, Byzantine, abstruse legal theory that has never ever
	being used in the court of law are trying to elevate it to a state felony concerning election fraud and potentially tax evasion based upon an NDA a non-disclosure agreement signed with Stephanie Clifford who goes by the name of Stormy Daniels take politics out of it for a millisecond for a nanosecond when you
	are downgrading violent felony charges across the board for those criminals who are literally preying on the residents of Manhattan.
	And then you decide to do the obverse?
	Literally?
	Out of thin air, take an expired misdemeanor and try through some alchemy of law to turn it into a felony?
	Then there is no rule of law.
	Now, politics aside, what are the eventual consequences of all this?
	We've seen the president raise $5 million in just the last few days.
	We've seen that he's now between 20 and 32 points in front of his closest rival for the nomination for the candidacy of the GOP presidential nominee.
	He's beating Ron DeSantis by double figures very, very handily.
	That's not the point.
	The point is police tactics in America.
	Eric Trump has done nothing wrong.
	He's been hounded.
	He's the head of the Trump Organization.
	Likewise, Donald Trump Jr.
	Likewise, Melania.
	Why was Melania's bedroom and wardrobe raided by armed officers?
	of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the most powerful law enforcement entity in the world, as President Trump's attorneys were ordered to stand outside the building.
	His attorneys!
	It's interesting that Joe Biden's attorneys, without any kind of security clearance, were allowed to scoop up all the top-secret documents in his office in D.C.
	that was being run for the Pennsylvania University, and then tell the authorities, whoops, sorry, we don't have clearances, but we found these documents, can we give them back to you?
	Until we find what?
	More secret documents in the garage?
	The unsecured garage of the property that Hunter Biden was renting for his father to the tune of $37,000 a month?
	Who's going to charge them?
	Who's going to charge Hunter Biden, President Biden, and the lawyers who have no right To even touch those documents, let alone read them and handle them and move them.
	You need to wake up.
	We all need to wake up.
	We are witnessing history right now.
	Never before.
	We've had lots of unusual individuals as the Chief Executive.
	The presidency has not always been showered in glory.
	We've had a civil war in which more Americans died than any war we've ever fought.
	That was over domestic politics.
	That was over slavery.
	But despite slavery, despite the civil war, despite everything we've survived in this nation, not once, never Has a president or a former president been indicted?
	The left has brought this upon us.
	And they won't solve it.
	They won't stop it.
	Only we can stop it.
	Only we can be the political force that stands in their way to stop their police state tactics.
	What are you doing about it?
	Are you making sure your voice is heard?
	Are you taking a political stand?
	That's up to us.
	I'm Sebastian Gawker.
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	Mic's on.
	Come in with Greg, then I'll do PhD, then I'll go to, uh, come in with a Greg cut, then go to PhD, then I'll do PhD, then I'll go to Greg.
	And then go to Greg.
	All right.
	Want me to call him now?
	Uh, no, you can wait a minute.
	All righty.
	And say welcome to 1,800 Rumble viewers.
	Ooh, nice.
	Thank you.
	You know, we haven't seen the indictment, but based on the leaks, mostly from the district attorney's office, we have a pretty good idea.
	And frankly, it is the most novel, if not bizarre, convoluted legal theory I think I've ever heard of.
	I wrote that it was cockamamie.
	It seems to be based On the coupling of two charges, one is a misdemeanor, falsifying a business record and then supercharging it into a felony by, you know, sort of bootstrapping a federal campaign finance violation.
	First of all, he's a local prosecutor.
	He can only charge under state laws.
	I'm not sure this is going to survive judicial scrutiny.
	Their other problem is that the statute of limitations on the misdemeanor was two years on the felony alleged, five years, so we're well past.
	The statute of limitations.
	On top of that, Bragg would have to show that Trump was personally involved in altering business records and that he knew and understood these arcane, complex campaign finance laws which nobody comprehends and intended to violate those laws.
	I just don't see, Lawrence, how he gets there.
	Far better explication than I could ever give.
	We will continue to unpack what Bragg is trying to do, as much as we can tell, with our friend Greg Jarrett in a moment.
	But I have a correction to make.
	Very rarely do we... How often do we make mistakes here, Eric?
	In five years, how many mistakes have I fessed up to?
	Maybe, what, three?
	I was going to say less than that, but sure.
	Maybe two.
	Let's do two.
	President Trump has not yet arrived in New York.
	They are streaming footage of his plane, Trump Force One.
	It is about to land in New York, and we will keep you updated.
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	Greg Jarrett, welcome back to America First.
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	Alright, so first things first.
	Can I just kind of... Everybody on the left, when they're not cheering, HE'S GOING TO JAIL!
	When we on the right comment, they say, ooh, but you can't know, it's a sealed indictment.
	But Greg, you just commented at length there, and...
	It's been leaking like a sieve.
	We even know the number of indictments, according to the New York Times.
	So, you know, we do know something, don't we?
	We do.
	And as I say, the leaks come from the district attorney's office, which, by the way, is a crime.
	Now, of course, Bragg doesn't care about any crime except for, you know, this ridiculous, ludicrous crime that Trump allegedly committed.
	This is a guy who Has downgraded 52% of felonies into petty misdemeanors.
	Not to mention his abysmal prosecution rate of 49% because he sucks as a lawyer.
	Hang on a second.
	Hang on.
	The average in America is more than 90%.
	He's in the 40s?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Not very skilled.
	But look, you know, this case centers around non-disclosure agreements in exchange for money.
	Which, by the way, are perfectly lawful.
	Corporations do it all the time.
	Media organizations do it all the time.
	Brad claims that candidate Trump somehow violated campaign finance laws by failing to account for them as contributions.
	Trump didn't account for them as a campaign donation because they're not.
	Hang on a second.
	So let's just walk through this.
	An NDA payment.
	That was handled by his then-attorney.
	What has that got to do with an election, number one?
	Well, you know, the claim by Bragg, and it's a specious claim, is that, oh, it's an in-kind contribution to his campaign because it benefited his election.
	Well, wouldn't he have to demonstrate that?
	Yeah, of course you would.
	And there's an objective standard, and it doesn't pass the objective standard test.
	If there's a dual purpose, an ancillary purpose, then of course it's not a campaign contribution.
	In preserving Trump's name and reputation of his eponymous real estate business empire is one of them.
	He's a married man, so you want to avoid embarrassment to his wife.
	There's another reason.
	So by definition, this does not count as a campaign contribution.
	You know, they tried to do this with John Edwards years and years ago.
	And it, you know, it didn't work.
	It was a failed prosecution for the exact reasons I've just described.
	So Bragg seems to think he's smarter than everybody else.
	In fact, he's quite dumber than everyone else.
	But he wants to be a hero here.
	You know, he's politically ambitious.
	He wants to advance his career.
	He's going to be the guy who takes down Trump.
	I got news for him.
	You know, in the end, this is not going to succeed because the law doesn't support the charge.
	All right.
	We have so many more questions I'm writing.
	Oh, here we go.
	Touchdown.
	Five, four, three, two, one.
	Wheels down.
	Trump Force One has just landed in New York.
	President Trump will be overnighting and then he will be, I can't believe I'm saying this, at central booking tomorrow to be fingerprinted and photographed for his mugshot.
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	Some kind of tax evasion because the NDA payment accrued some benefit to him.
	Is that really what they're saying?
	Yeah, you know, I don't know.
	Again, it's sealed.
	These are, you know, leaks.
	So, you know, we'll have to wait and see how the charges reveal themselves.
	And what would be the standard practice?
	When would they unseal them?
	Because usually a sealed indictment is for a fugitive from the law or flight risk, correct?
	Well, at the same time that he is arraigned, then the judge is planning to unseal the indictment.
	So, you know, we'll see it around 2.15 tomorrow, I guess.
	Wow.
	Your expectations?
	You think it's going to gel with all the leaks, or do you think there's going to be some surprises, like the left keeps promising?
	Yeah, there's always a surprise or two.
	I'm interested to see whether he's chopped up the reimbursements to Michael Cohen as separate crimes, which, you know, quantity doesn't make the charges any better in terms of their quality, and it's a cheap trick.
	Yeah.
	Now, in the case of a corporate entity like Trump LLC, So, who's liable for, in similar cases, if you have, what do they call it, a business fraud misstatement on an official document, usually that's just a fine paid by the LLC, correct?
	Yeah, it usually is, and it wouldn't normally constitute a fraud because you're not defrauding anybody except the corporation itself.
	Good point.
	So a point that was effectively made by Bill Barr, you know, in his interview with Larry Kudlow not long ago.
	So, you know, I mean, I think we'll just have to wait and see, you know, what these charges are.
	But it was always a zombie case, deader than a doornail.
	And, you know, he resurrected it from the grave, which is incredibly suspicious, especially Since DOJ and FEC just looked at it and said, nothing here to see.
	Right.
	Did you hear about this judge, Juan Merchan, who rolled up at the court with his security detail in grey sweatpants, a puffer jacket and a baseball cap.
	I think that's probably the first judge I've heard who dresses like that.
	Well, what worries me is that this is a clear case of judge shopping bias.
	The DA, you know, they pick the judge to preside over the grand jury and therefore they get to shoehorn him into presiding over the case.
	This is a guy who, you know, doesn't like Trump.
	I probably would consider challenging him for cause.
	You know, which is always a tricky thing to do because as a lawyer you then subsequently have to appear before him.
	Let's discuss that in the segment.
	Let's discuss that in the segment.
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	All right, we are back with legal and political analyst For FoxNews.com, he's Greg Jantz.
	Greg, we were chatting in the break.
	We'll talk about the judge who's overseeing this case.
	But first things first, is there a danger?
	What is the precedence?
	A lot of people have been talking about a potential gag order.
	My understanding is gag orders are usually meant to protect the accused.
	Are we really potentially going to see a gag order against the 45th President of the United States so he can't talk about the trial?
	Well, I've always argued that gag orders against an accused are unconstitutional, a violation clearly of the First Amendment freedom of speech.
	You know, you've got the immense power and unlimited resources of a prosecutor, you know, who releases, you know, charges, and it's hard for a defendant to sort of counter that.
	He has a free speech right to say he's innocent.
	He has a free speech right to tell people why he's not guilty.
	And, you know, the trouble has always been that in order, you know, judges routinely issue gag orders.
	To challenge them takes money and time.
	And generally a trial's over by the time you're able to litigate the unconstitutionality of a gag order.
	So we'll wait and see how this shakes out.
	But it wouldn't surprise me if this judge issues a gag order.
	And let's talk about this judge and how he was chosen.
	It's Juan Merchan.
	What do we know about him and who picks the judge?
	Well, this is a classic case of judge shopping.
	You know, Alvin Bragg specifically chose this particular judge to preside over Bragg's grand jury and now trying to shoehorn That same judge is the only logical choice to preside over the trial.
	New York's just about the only jurisdiction that allows that kind of fundamental unfairness.
	Classic New York.
	Everything's backwards and inequitable.
	And, you know, this is a judge who I think has demonstrated his bias against Trump.
	And frankly, as a defense attorney, I would consider challenging him for cause.
	And how significant is it that the alleged star witnesses, Michael Cohen, a man convicted of perjury, and Stormy Daniels, who lost a defamation suit against President Trump, not exactly the strongest individuals to build a case on, are they?
	No, absolutely not.
	Bragg's star witness appears to be the disgraced and disbarred Michael Cohen.
	He's an infamous liar.
	He went to prison for lying to the IRS, lying to banks, lying to Congress.
	Truly, you know, one of the most disreputable, sleazy people you'll ever have the misfortune to meet.
	His dishonesty exceeded only by his unscrupulous zeal to destroy Trump.
	He hates Trump.
	So I think what Bragg doesn't realize, because he's not terribly skilled or bright, Is that if Cohen ever takes the witness stand, he'll be absolutely eviscerated on cross-examination, making Bragg look like the fool that he is.
	Any chance of a move of location, or is that pie in the sky, to have a slightly more fair jurisdiction?
	Yeah, I mean you can try that, and I'm sure that the defense will consider it.
	It still doesn't get rid of the judge, which I think is the primary problem.
	There will be a flurry of motions to dismiss this case.
	Because the law doesn't support the charge and the statute of limitations have run a long time ago.
	And, you know, it's up to the judge to rule on those things.
	I do think that the defense will try to seek an immediate interlocutory appeal if those motions to dismiss are denied by the judge.
	So a lot of different balls are being juggled in the air.
	We'll have to see how they land.
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	President Trump and the rally.
	That thing is so low-res, it's embarrassing.
	All right.
	Let's just delete that and get a better one because there's so much footage out there from rallies.
	Consumer research.
	All right.
	Strange they're coming off the back of the plane.
	Yeah, that's how he went in, in Florida.
	Uh, title for Jarrett?
	Um... The Embarrassing Case Against President Trump.
	Alright.
	Bragg's Embarrassing Case Against President Trump.
	And for Lee?
	For Lee... Uh... Something maybe about Obama?
	A name dropped off.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Obama's role... In the plot.
	Um...
	In the plot against President Trump.
	Mm-hmm.
	All right.
	Captain keeps coming out.
	All right.
	I remember when Obama's convoy, he used to play basketball on the base where I worked at Fort McNair.
	Oh goodness.
	And he used to drive from the White House to Fort McNair, which is, I don't know, three miles.
	And I was leaving my office and Obama pulls in and I just stood there outside our building and I counted.
	He used to get from the White House to Fort McNair, three mile trip, a convoy of 36 vehicles.
	36 vehicles just to play basketball.
	Can you imagine the environmental damage?
	We had the nicest basketball court though, so... Barry had to get in his convoy.
	Want to come in with anything?
	What?
	Want to come in with anything?
	Yeah, come in with Manchin.
	Mansion 3, no liner.
	Yeah.
	Mansion 3, no
	liner. Mansion no liner. Mansion 3, no liner.
	It's very sad for our country to have to go through this.
	And a segment of society who believes that maybe it's biased, that the system doesn't work for all, I would have to wait and see what comes out next week, but I would hope and pray that whatever comes forth, that they've done due diligence, they're very, very accurate in what they're doing, and understanding that the rule of law Yeah, is that basically no one's above the law, but no one should be targeted by the law.
	Eric, I don't think I've ever seen Senator Manchin that low energy.
	That's like, you know, he's running a marathon, he's like... Have you ever seen him so low energy?
	That's saying a lot for Manchin, especially.
	I think that's him acknowledging, like, deep down, I think he has some semblance of a conscience that knows this is wrong, but obviously doesn't want to go too far in.
	Giving any leeway to President Trump, so he just phones it in as he did there.
	Totally phoned it in.
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	Line one, and it's not Thursday.
	Antoinette, happy Monday.
	Hey, happy Monday, Dr. G.
	So our president, President Trump, safely in his car.
	We must say prayers throughout our country.
	Yeah, he's literally... Sorry, I'm watching the TV.
	President Trump has literally gotten into his... I can see Boris!
	Boris has just walked off the plane.
	Boris is right there.
	I'm going to text him right now.
	I'm going to text him the photograph.
	Boris, our buddy, just got off the plane.
	President Trump is in the third vehicle.
	They've got, like, a nine-car convoy, an ambulance, three police outriders as well.
	So, he has safely landed in New York.
	Sorry, Antoinette, I'm just watching the live feed right now.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	It's okay.
	I loved the approach of the aircraft.
	It's pretty windy there and it's kind of a tricky runway landing in LaGuardia.
	Yes.
	So at least he's there safe landed.
	So what I wanted to say is I sent Jeff some photographs.
	There were between 50 and 70 of us here in Nevada for President Trump and for tomorrow.
	Nice.
	Trump Tuesday we're going to be out there.
	Huntington Beach pier was packed Saturday, according to all my buddies there, and in front of the In-N-Out Burger in Mission Viejo, they're going to be there tomorrow as well.
	So we must say prayers.
	And lastly, President Trump needs to speak tonight, because those liars, those Democrats, are going to put a gag order on him.
	They lied to us, he needs to be that step ahead, and that's it in a nutshell.
	We pray for our president.
	We pray for our country, our justice system.
	This is very critical and very scary.
	Thank you, Dr. G. God bless you.
	Thank you, Antoinette.
	Mr. G is actually on a little vacation.
	I don't know who allowed him to do that, but we will get the photographs from him.
	Thank you, Antoinette.
	Let's go to Philly and Phil.
	Line two.
	Phil, are you there?
	Let's do the countdown.
	The official.
	Dr. G?
	Yeah!
	Where were you?
	Were you stuck under something very heavy?
	I'm sorry about that.
	I'm just trying to get next to a window.
	But here's what I'm saying.
	It's so upsetting, but I think that they handed Team Trump a bag of lemons that he can make lemonade from.
	If he goes back at Albert Bragg with a civil suit commits use of judicial process.
	Once he pierces the sovereign immunity shield, he can go after emails, phones, phone records.
	Yeah, but hang on, but hang on.
	You know, that's the big if.
	How on earth most government officials are protected by that Teflon coating of the sovereign immunity?
	So do you have any secret legal tool that we can use?
	Sure.
	File a federal suit in Florida.
	Interesting, interesting.
	Yeah, and he'll be supported so robustly by the governor, right?
	And sue for a billion dollars and leave John Doe defendants on there.
	And just like Nancy Pelosi says, hey, they'll have chances to get in the court and prove their innocence.
	Bingo.
	Just like Nancy, that amazing legal scholar, upended centuries of British and American law and said, you have to prove your innocence.
	Thanks, Phil.
	Let's go.
	Oh, let's go to New York.
	Sean, line three.
	Dr. Gorka, I'm gonna riff here.
	Two things.
	Firstly, Harry Belafonte.
	Second thing, Ramadan.
	I'll tie it in, okay?
	Alright, alright.
	I am curious.
	Harry Belafonte and Ramadan.
	Go!
	I'm sure you're familiar with the refrain.
	I am indeed, I am indeed, and very other versions of it as well.
	We need to start a Banana Republic protest, okay?
	Hang on!
	Does everybody have to wave a banana in the air?
	Why not?
	It's a great idea and we could say, how do you like your banana republic?
	I like mine a la mode.
	And then they're going to say, it's a white supremacy, silent whistle or whatever they call it.
	Oh my gosh.
	Sean, that's, I, did you rip that off from some or did you come up with that yourself?
	That is mine.
	That is totally mine.
	And, uh, the second thing is they have set the precedent.
	They have interfered in an election by, uh, you know, using the legal system as a weapon.
	So that means they have gone after our Davidic figure during Holy Week.
	The irony does not escape me.
	I have to say now Obama and the entire cohort are fair game during Ramadan.
	You know, that is actually really, really good.
	The idea that we hold up bananas and, oh my gosh, and we talk about this being A banana republic and have an actual symbol.
	You've got to make t-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts.
	Yeah, but I like the banana as well.
	All right.
	And the other thing I read today that I have to verify right now, I'm doing it live on radio.
	Let's see if I can find it right now.
	Here we go.
	What day?
	Oh my gosh.
	What day is it today?
	What's the date today, Eric?
	And do you know what day it is tomorrow, Sean?
	It is?
	Yes, indeed.
	April the 4th, which is what?
	It is the day that Dr. Martin Luther King gave his life.
	Bingo.
	Yeah, I saw that on a tweet earlier today.
	I didn't verify it.
	I've just verified it.
	So they are bringing President Trump To Manhattan to Central Booking on the anniversary of the murder of MLK.
	Interesting, interesting, interesting.
	Stay on the line, Sean.
	Let's give Sean a pick of whatever he wants from the Seb Gorka store because that's genius.
	I think we're going to do a run.
	We're going to buy more bananas in the next few days than Americans have ever, ever purchased in the history of banana imports to the United States.
	Genius, Sean.
	Bloody genius.
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	First piece of hold.
	Good job there, Alex.
	Very good, very good, very good.
	I was expecting banana splits.
	Oh, yes!
	That would have been good.
	Alright, let's send a photograph of Baron to Baron.
	You had a good eye.
	I couldn't recognize anybody.
	Oh, you can tell, Baron.
	You can tell, Baron.
	Well, I guess my attention is also drawn in multiple directions at the moment, so... Yeah, yeah.
	Excuses.
	Excuses.
	We don't need no sticking.
	We know Scavino's with him.
	We know Eric Trump's with him.
	You see what he posted on Twitter?
	No, I saw somebody really tall.
	What did he post?
	He posted a picture of them watching the big TV screen in Trump Force One, where they were watching the Fox News coverage of Trump Force One on the tarmac.
	Oh, funny, funny, funny.
	Like watching the plane from the plane.
	Isete!
	Isete!
	Oh my gosh, all the lines are full.
	Yes they are.
	That's caracas.
	That's caracas.
	Isate, isate, isate, eh, eh, oh.
	Daylight come and me wanna go home.
	Come Mr. Taliban, tell him me banana.
	Daylight come and me wanna go home.
	Alright!
	Isate, isate, isate, isate, isate, eh, eh, oh.
	Toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot.
	Thank you.
	America First.
	Mega-nificent.
	Eric Trump is on, or was, on Trump Force One.
	He's now in the convoy heading to Manhattan.
	Let's have another cut from his superb interview over the weekend.
	Cut seven, Eric Trump.
	You guys live in New York.
	I used to live in New York.
	I know that city very, very well.
	I go back to New York and I said this the other night, you literally can't walk into a Duane Reade and buy Advil because everything's locked up behind plastic because there's so much looting.
	There's so much crime.
	Homelessness is through the roof.
	You know, little girls are getting shot in Times Square.
	Women are being thrown in front of subway trains.
	And this has been the priority of the Manhattan D.A.' 's office for six years is going after Donald Trump.
	Yeah.
	Rule of law has been stood on its head.
	Let's go to New Jersey, Vicky, line one.
	Hi.
	Hey.
	Come on, Vicky.
	Let's get going.
	Snap, snap.
	We've got full call board.
	What are you waiting for?
	T-shirt idea.
	Yes.
	A picture of the mugshot picture of Martin Luther King Jr., one of the parks, the one that will exist tomorrow, unfortunately, for Donald Trump.
	And then something that, like, Sometimes a mugshot just means you're making a difference.
	Ooh!
	Did you make that up yourself?
	I did.
	Hang on.
	Sometimes a mugshot just means you're making a difference.
	How about this?
	How about this?
	How about sometimes a mugshot just means the establishment's afraid of you?
	Ooh, I like that.
	You like that?
	Okay, good.
	I do.
	I love it.
	Love it.
	Thank you.
	Great suggestion.
	Let's go to Randy Knoxville, line two.
	Hey, Dr. Gorka.
	Hey.
	Hey, I think that I have...
	This judge puts a gag order on President Trump that he ought to practice civil disobedience, tell the judge, hey, if you want to hold me in contempt and put me in jail, knock yourself out.
	I think it would help him even more if we could just go free President Trump.
	You know, he'll be in jail with a bunch of Secret Service guys, you know, watching his back and, you know, he'll be all right.
	You know what?
	I like the cut of your jib, Randy.
	That could be a kind of political escalation where the judge has to decide how much he wants to destroy the fabric of our republic.
	You are a troublemaker, Randy, but I like it.
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	I As President Trump was indicted for a misdemeanor from seven years ago, what happened in Florida while no one was looking on Friday?
	Oh yes, the Senate changed the constitution of that state so the incumbent governor can run for the presidency.
	Sneaky sneaky, Mr. DeSantis.
	But at least it's not as amusing as Asa Hutchinson.
	Yes, Asa Hutchinson has announced his intention to run for the candidacy of the president for the GOP.
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	Welcome back, dear friends.
	We are watching drone footage.
	I don't know how they're doing this.
	It must be helicopter footage.
	I guess they must have a permit.
	The president's convoy, it's like a dozen vehicle convoy, has left the airport.
	He is on his way to Manhattan.
	We'll get your calls later this hour.
	We're gonna have Commissioner Carrick on.
	But first I need to talk about what happened to my friend over the weekend.
	He was on my show.
	He was on the Gawker Reality Check on Newsmax yesterday.
	He's one of the bravest guys I know.
	He is fighting to stop the mutilation of children under the ideology of transgenderism.
	Let's show the b-roll of what happened to Chris Elston, Billboard Chris, in Vancouver at the weekend.
	somebody interviewing him a provocateur he's just standing there peacefully with his board that says children cannot consent to puberty blockers that's all he ever says and it's right if you can't drink alcohol you can't have sex get a tattoo the idea that you should be
	uh... able to decide as a minor that you can take puberty blockers or surgery that will make you sterile he's just standing there filming the protesters on the trans day of awareness until the fake woman who's screaming at him lunges at him there you go uh... beat him up uh... actually throat punched him and then caused a cut to his face i think we have a still of that afterwards in his car he made a little video you can see uh...
	Chris's wound on his face.
	There you go.
	There's the perfect shot of the punch to the throat from that's actually a man pretending to be a woman.
	And then in the background, you'll see a police officer grinning, a female officer smiling, who smiled through the whole thing.
	Her name is Frederica Buchmann.
	Her badge number is 3081.
	And I want you to complain to the Vancouver Police Department. - I did.
	My team heard me.
	Earlier today, I rang up the Vancouver Police Department.
	I said I wish to file an official complaint against one of your police officers who stood there, who was the officer in charge.
	There were up to 30 officers there who did nothing while Billboard Chris was assaulted for protecting children.
	We've identified who she is, as I said, Frederica Bookman, and her badge number is 3081.
	Please write these numbers down.
	The Vancouver Police Department, 604-717-3321.
	That's a human being picks that line up, or you can go straight to the voicemail for the complaints, the official Standards and Ethics Department.
	You can leave a message.
	604-717-2670.
	Watch the video first.
	I'm not asking you to be drones.
	That's what the left does.
	Watch the video of the assault on my friend Chris Elston, Billboard Chris, who is protecting children from the transgender extremists.
	The Vancouver Police Department.
	We found her social media account.
	Put up the social media account that I sent you.
	They found her social media account.
	It was, of course, under a pseudonym.
	And she's an activist.
	She was pro-LGBT, transgender, you name it.
	Chris, or somebody helping Chris out, found the account and I went to the account today.
	And, of course, what's happened?
	Because she's a coward, She's cancelled the account.
	It was Bar No Legs was the pseudonym.
	Bar No Legs.
	I don't know what the hell that means.
	But she's an activist pretending to police officer.
	So let's go back.
	Let's show the photograph of her in the circle.
	She was laughing.
	Okay?
	She was laughing as Chris was being attacked.
	The number again.
	604-717-3321 or 604-717-2670.
	Frederica Buchmann, B-U-C-H-M-A-N, and badge number 3081.
	We have the video of her talking to Chris after he was assaulted, right?
	Yeah, let's play it.
	Play this incredible video.
	Excuse me, did you just say he came here to incite violence by forcing his opinion on people?
	You think he came here to incite violence because they got offended by his sign?
	What is wrong with you?
	He didn't scream at all.
	They put their face in his face.
	What is wrong with you?
	How on earth did you become a police officer?
	She is literally sitting here saying that Billboard Chris is inciting violence by standing there with his sign.
	Is that really your position?
	Okay, sir.
	We're done with this conversation.
	Yeah, I thought so.
	I thought so.
	This is absolutely undercoming of the Vancouver Police Department.
	Disgusting.
	See, it's not just happening here in America.
	At Central Booking in Manhattan, they're on the side of the extremists, the violent extremists.
	Whether it's criminals pushing people onto subway tracks, or whether it's people attacking someone protecting children.
	You are scum, Frederica Bookman.
	You are a little fascist!
	You would have been a brown shirt in Germany in the 1930s, and you need to be fired yesterday!
	Call up the Vancouver PD.
	604-717-3321.
	Or leave a message.
	604-717-2670.
	File an official complaint.
	or leave a message 604-717-2670.
	A file of an official complaint, Frederica Bookman, badge number 3081- She's not a cop.
	She's a transgender extremist with a badge and a gun.
	And that's dangerous.
	Remember what happened in Nashville.
	Another transgender extremist.
	No badge, but she had a gun.
	Let's go to your calls.
	Let's go to David Orlando, line two.
	Hi, Dr. Gorka.
	Thank you for having me on your show.
	Sure.
	What happened to President Trump, or candidate Trump, at the time was he was extorted.
	And Stormy Daniels' attorney went to jail for extortion.
	If I were President Trump, I would walk into a New York City police department and file out a police report claiming that he was extorted.
	And let's see if Big Brad goes after that.
	No, that's very good.
	We don't know what the conditions or the genesis of the NDA with Stormy Daniels were, but we do know, we do know that Michael Cohen went to prison because he was involved in a fraudulent scheme to do with the New York taxi medallions, the taxicab medallions.
	So you nailed it.
	Oh, and by the way, he's a convicted perjurer.
	Strucken off the attorney's bar and Stormy Daniels lost her defamation case against President Trump.
	Yes, all grist for the mill of the defense, but it doesn't matter to the left.
	Thank you, my friend.
	Let's go to Judy in Brooklyn.
	Hi.
	Hey.
	How are you?
	Good.
	Update.
	The Trump motorcade has arrived at Trump Tower.
	President Trump is safely ensconced inside Trump Tower.
	What's your comment, Judy?
	I've got two comments, actually, if you don't mind.
	I don't want the number.
	Just do it.
	Okay.
	Okay, good.
	As far as I'm concerned, tomorrow we are one step closer To having President Trump back in the office of the United States of America.
	That's what I believe.
	That's one step closer.
	They have no idea who they're dealing with.
	There were so many people that were sitting on the fence that I've spoken to, or people, whatever, and they are all voting for Trump now.
	They don't care.
	Not DeSantis Trump.
	Were these people who'd lost their faith in President Trump and changed their mind?
	Who are these people?
	Some of them, yes, whatever, but I've heard that from a few, and I'm very happy to hear it, because that seems to be the sentiment, and I hear it on the radio shows, and I hear it when people, you know, people that I'm in my circle talking to, whatever, so I think that's a great thing.
	But the things like this, what's happening now is, I'm telling you, they don't realize what's happening.
	They are now galvanizing all of us who voted, but I want to tell you something else.
	I'm a little bit changed.
	I'm watching this man because I feel that DeSantis, Governor Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, if they really care about this country, they would say we are not running.
	We're backing behind President Trump.
	And guess what?
	I'm watching DeSantis and I have a new name for him if he's not careful, OK?
	And his new name is going to be, you ready for this?
	Yeah.
	It's not going to be Governor Ron DeSantis.
	It's going to be Rotten Establishment.
	OK, that's good.
	Do you know what he secretly did on Friday?
	Yeah, you said that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he changed the law in Florida so the governor can stay in office when he's running for the presidency.
	How sneaky of you, Ron.
	Thank you, Judy.
	Great, great calls.
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	Mic's on.
	Want me to call him now or wait for a bit?
	Wait for two minutes.
	Okay.
	Panda, panda, panda.
	Where is Boris?
	I photographed him.
	Where is he?
	Oh, there he is!
	The Baron, the Baron.
	The Baron.
	Three minutes.
	Yes.
	Checking on that beautiful 2300 viewers!
	welcome all you guys welcome alright
	let's send that to the Baron and to Panda and to the Two and a half minutes.
	Oh, he said he couldn't use Skype.
	Excuse me.
	Oh, good.
	I want to be sure that Skype handle works.
	What have we got here?
	This is B. Alright, Skype one, Alex.
	Ready?
	Yep.
	While mics off or on for him?
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	The End
	Making sense out of today's nonsense, here's Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
	That is definitely a music liner left over from when Jim Hansen was guest hosting.
	That's a little bit heavy for my liking.
	We'll have words in the break.
	I need to know where that came from.
	Dear friends, President Trump has arrived.
	He is safely in Trump Tower right now before we get to our next guest.
	Let's just lighten the mood a little bit.
	Asa Hutchinson kind of quasi made it official over the weekend.
	This is cut five.
	I hear people talk about the leadership of our country, and I'm convinced that people want leaders that appeal to the best of America, and not simply appeal to our worst instincts.
	And that inspires me when I see everyday Americans just saying, give us good leadership, give us common sense, consistent conservatism, and optimism about our great country.
	And that inspires me, and I believe I can be that kind of leader for the people of America.
	The former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson is running for the presidency.
	I'm sorry, this guy is such a non-entity.
	Eric, is he even a Republican?
	That's debatable at this point.
	Realistically, he is just so salty about the fact that his successor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is outshining him in every way possible.
	I think you have it there.
	What a clown show.
	All right, let's talk to a serious individual, probably the person who can tell us most about what's going to happen in the next 18 hours in New York, the 40th commissioner of the New York Police Department, the author of an incredible book, several books.
	The first autobiography is Lost Son.
	Commissioner Bernie Kerik, welcome back to America First.
	Thank you, sir.
	Now I know we are in uncharted territory because this has never happened before in the history of the Republic that a president has been indicted but in practice you've had high-profile individuals that have gone through this process.
	Can you walk us through what it would look like tomorrow if it weren't the President of the United States?
	And then explain to us how being a federal protectee with 24-hour A day secret service protection, how that complicates the process.
	So here's what's going to happen, or what would normally happen, Sebastian.
	The subject, target, whatever you want, they would go into the courthouse.
	If it's a self-surrender, they would show up at the DA's office.
	The district attorney would take them in an office.
	They'd meet with their lawyer.
	Somebody would come in and hand them a copy of the indictment that was now unsealed.
	They would go in, tell them what they're being charged with.
	They get to review that document.
	They take him in a private room.
	In that room, they would photograph them.
	They would fingerprint them.
	They would have somebody from pre-trial speak to them before they went into the courtroom.
	And then they go into the courtroom, they walk them into the courtroom, and the judge We'll basically go through the list of charges, whatever those charges are, and tell the suspect or the target, this is what your charges are.
	And do you have any questions?
	Is there anything you want to know?
	Is there anything you need to know?
	And then the judge will say, I'm setting bail.
	Now, I have to imagine all of this has already been done, with the exception of the fingerprints.
	I cannot fathom That they're going to handcuff him to walk him into the courtroom.
	I can't fathom they're going to take a mugshot.
	I heard last night they were not.
	Really?
	So no mugshot?
	That's what I've heard.
	That's what I've heard.
	Don't know how true it is.
	And there's a bunch of people putting stuff out there that, you know, listen, if I was Alvin Bragg, the mugshot's not necessary.
	Everybody in the entire country knows who the president is, the world.
	The fingerprints, ironically, they're not really necessary either.
	He's been printed enough.
	But they're going to go through this process.
	And then the judge is going to basically say, look, here's your bail.
	Here's your bail conditions.
	You know, and you're going to he's going to have a pretrial somebody that talks to him that really won't talk to him.
	They'll speak to his attorneys and and then he'll be released.
	That's what I think is going to happen.
	If anything happens... Is there an arraignment in front of a judge?
	Is there a plea or is that later?
	No, that's an arraignment in front of a judge.
	But does the charged individual at that point say whether they plead guilty or innocent?
	No, I don't think he'll do that tomorrow.
	That's not going to happen tomorrow.
	And then in other instances, is the individual always handcuffed or is that at the discretion of the court or the police?
	It's at the discretion of the prosecutor in conjunction with the arresting agency, whoever that may be.
	I've been through this process.
	I was walked into a courtroom, and in that initial meeting, I was not handcuffed.
	I didn't go through that process.
	I was fingerprinted.
	They took a photo.
	And then we, we sat went through the indictment and walked into a courtroom.
	And then you you meet with the judge, then your attorneys meet with you and the judge and then you're off and running.
	I don't think there's anything.
	There's a bunch of stuff, all these little steps that normally happen.
	None of that needs to happen with the President, number one.
	Number two, keep in mind, he's a civil service protectee, one of the highest protectees in the country, and the Secret Service is going to be with him throughout this entire process.
	And how unusual is it, in your experience, this indictment?
	He's not a flight risk.
	He's not a fugitive from justice.
	Why has this been sealed, Commissioner?
	Well, who knows?
	You know what?
	I gotta be honest, Sebastian.
	This is all theater.
	Yeah.
	The entire thing is theater.
	It's a big, you know, it's a big magical theater for, you know, for Soros, the Democrat Party.
	And Albert Bragg is their puppet.
	So they control the strings and, and he's carrying out what they want done.
	Yeah, no, I think that's a perfect way of putting it, that it is theatre for George Soros and this individual, Avon Bragg, is merely a puppet.
	Let's remind all of our listeners that three days after he announced his campaign for the district attorneyship, this individual received A million dollars from the organization, the front organization, we can call it that, the NGO, for his campaign.
	The same organization that had just received a million dollars from George Soros, which is interesting because the biggest donation that NGO had received up to that point that year was $200,000.
	So in comes Five times that amount of money, and it goes to one recipient.
	It goes to Alvin Bragg.
	We know who this person is.
	There's a phrase for that.
	It's called a meat puppet.
	We're going to keep the Commissioner over for another segment.
	Then we're going to go to your call.
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	What would have been the highest profile individual that was arraigned when you were commissioner?
	No.
	Nobody, nobody like that.
	Nobody even close.
	You know, we had... Any politicians?
	No, no, nothing.
	Nothing like this.
	I mean, this is insane.
	Yeah.
	It's insane.
	I mean, there's nothing like this.
	You know, and I want to think the highest person, I mean, was Flynn.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Flynn, right?
	I mean, had to be.
	Had to be.
	Yeah.
	It's kind of like living in a dream, really.
	You feel like this is just insanity.
	My pillow?
	Okay.
	Have you ever met this person, Bragg? - Thank you.
	No.
	No.
	Nope.
	I like your office.
	Looks like a lot of cool stuff.
	Like a museum in there.
	Is that your plate carrier?
	Yep.
	And then who's the handsome guy in the photograph with the full gear on, with the helmet and everything else, over your right shoulder?
	That's my son.
	My son is a team leader for the Newark Police SWAT team, up in New Jersey.
	Wow.
	Like father, like son?
	Remember a couple years ago, there were two black Israelites.
	They killed a New Jersey City cop, and they shot and killed five Jews in a market.
	It was around Christmas time in 2019.
	My son killed them.
	Wow.
	Did they send him in, or was he there on duty, or what was it?
	No, no, he was a part of the SWAT team.
	He's responding?
	Yeah, him and two other guys from Jersey City.
	How many years does he have in?
	18, 19.
	Oh my gosh, wow.
	Yeah.
	And he actually works, he's the team leader for the Newark SWAT team, but he actually is assigned to the FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force out of Newark.
	So he's been there for about 3-4 years, I guess.
	How does he like being on the JTTF?
	Interesting.
	They're down in Chelsea in New York, right?
	Down in Chelsea, New York.
	They're on McCarter Highway in Newark.
	About 10 minutes from Newark Airport.
	When we're offline in a...
	Secure location.
	I'll have to tell you my story about my experience with the New York Transit Police.
	I was traveling through the airport and had a rather fun experience that forced me to miss my plane and leave my family on the plane as they went to California.
	Yeah.
	When a local guy knows nothing about what you're carrying and what you're permitted to carry.
	Alright, standby.
	20 seconds.
	Come in.
	Come in.
	I mean, in theory, it should be like the hundreds of other arraignments I've done in that building over the course of my career, which is you walk in, you see a judge, you plead not guilty, you set a schedule, and you leave.
	I Obviously, this is different.
	This has never happened before.
	I've never had Secret Service involved in an arraignment before at 100 Center Street.
	The answer to that question, Dan, is I honestly don't know how this is going to go.
	Hopefully as smoothly as possible, and then we begin the battle to right this wrong, because it's a day that, in my opinion, the rule of law in the United States has died.
	That's Joseph Takapina, the President Trump's attorney, talking about the state of law and order in America.
	I'm your host Sebastian Gorka.
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	His book is Lost Son.
	Please follow him right now at Bernard Kerrick on Twitter.
	Commissioner, we were talking in the break that it's like being in a fantasy land, like in some kind of dystopian nightmare, what we're witnessing right now.
	As a result, There really is no way to predict where this is heading because the key actors, they're not following any principles of law, are they?
	No, it's all corrupt.
	It's all corrupt.
	So, you know, we could sit back and judge based on logic and based on law and what we anticipate would, could, should happen.
	The bottom line is, These guys don't follow the law, because if they followed the law, this wouldn't be a case, and Donald Trump wouldn't be in New York right now having to surrender tomorrow.
	And that's reality.
	So we just have to stand by, see how they're going to play this out, and then let the president's attorneys move forward.
	Now, if we want to fix this, if we don't want this to happen again, well, you know, everybody listening across the nation, three million plus people have to get politically engaged.
	We have to challenge people like Alvin Bragg.
	We have to defeat them politically.
	We have to get President Trump back in the White House.
	The permanent bureaucracy, the deep state, whatever you wish to call it, has to be dismantled.
	Is there anything else that has to be done?
	I mean, you know better than most How do you fight this kind of entrenched corruption with people who have immense power?
	Well, I think the primary way, Sebastian, and I actually spoke to the president this morning, and one of the things we talked about was the 2024 election.
	How do we ensure that what happened in 2020 And 2022 in Arizona, how do we ensure that that doesn't happen in 2024?
	So that's one thing.
	That's a major thing.
	The second thing is, especially at the federal level, if President Trump is reelected, he has to appoint an attorney general that is going to enforce the law as stringently as You know, straightforward as possible.
	And then he's gonna have to gut the FBI and other federal agencies.
	I would say personally, I would say at the top five levels down, because you got to get rid of the executives, you got to get rid of everybody right up to the first line supervisors, they've got to go, because they've been in a position for the last several years, where They don't abide by the rules.
	They don't abide by the law.
	I'm kind of shocked that we don't have a number of local, state and federal law enforcement officers that just don't walk off the job and say, look, I don't want to be a part of this.
	I know what you're doing is illegal.
	It's illegal because if I did it for anybody else, if I did it and I got caught, I go to prison.
	And you guys are doing it from the top down.
	It's terrible.
	It's one of the most shocking things that whether you're a pro-life preacher in Philadelphia having your door knocked down by 20 armed feds on a misdemeanor charge that was expunged four months previously, or whether you're the former president of the United States, Have some bloody balls.
	Throw your badge in your supervisor's face and say, I'm not the Gestapo.
	Have a spine.
	I know it's your pension, but which is more important?
	Your soul before God?
	Or your pension.
	Thank you, Commissioner, for saying what you just said.
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	Alvin Bragg is just Soros' puppet.
	It's just George Soros' puppet.
	Yep.
	Thank you.
	Which album was it?
	That was, like, heavy.
	It was called, uh, Stone Cold Crazy?
	No, you can pitch that.
	Alright, how many words can I get into nine minutes?
	Oh, the A block is two minutes longer than a D block, right?
	The full A block is eleven minutes, and a D block is eight minutes, I believe.
	Including the read.
	The D block is nine, I think.
	The B block is nine minutes.
	Oh, that's right.
	These nine.
	Alright, I'm going to save this to tomorrow.
	I can't get that in.
	I'll just take calls here.
	Alright.
	Alright, what have I done here?
	I've played Gaser, Takapino.
	Oh, I haven't got any of the MTGs.
	I have them, yeah.
	Um, come in with two, then I'll take some cores, and then I'll do the other one.
	Two, the original?
	The original!
	The original, and then... And then I'll tee up the other one, if I have time.
	Yeah.
	The one where she calls them pedophiles.
	Yes!
	Hang on, sorry.
	Just to be clear.
	Come in with the one where she calls them pedophiles.
	No.
	Oh, no.
	Okay, the other one.
	And then you'll tee up pedophiles.
	And then we have Levine as well, if you want to use that too.
	Yes, but I'll take some cores.
	All righty.
	My question really is, can't you fight for what you believe in without all that name-calling and without the personal attacks?
	Well, I would ask the same question to the other side.
	Because all they've done is call me names and insult me non-stop since I've been here, Leslie.
	They call me racist.
	They call me anti-Semitic, which is not true.
	I'm not calling anyone names.
	I'm calling out the truth.
	Oh, Leslie Stahl wants us to be nice.
	Hey Eric, the left have been so nice to conservatives for the last six years, right?
	Oh, it's so nice getting all these puff pieces from the New York Times and Politico, you know.
	Oh yeah!
	Can you imagine if they wrote a puff piece on me?
	Oh my gosh, that would be the day I resign from public life if the New York Times or the Washington Post did that.
	Just wait till you hear what MTG said next.
	We're going to be nice to MTG from now on.
	She disappointed us with Kevin McCarthy, right Eric?
	Are we gonna let her back into the magafold?
	What do you think?
	I think she's still way more of an ally than an enemy, so I say yes.
	I think we have to be nice to her.
	Alright guys, thank you for waiting to call, but he's absolutely chock-a-block.
	Let's go to... James, Columbus, Ohio.
	Hi, Sebastian Gorka.
	This is James and Thomas.
	I think it's a great idea with your t-shirt to stand with the 45, but I think it's missing two words at the very beginning.
	It should be enough's enough.
	I stand with 45 because that also will appeal to the rights that want to jump ship.
	Yeah, I like that.
	I like that.
	We have literally just designed that shirt the day that the news of the arraignment occurred.
	So, I like it.
	I've written it down.
	James, enough is enough.
	Maybe that will be the next one.
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	Let's go to Elliot in Illinois.
	Hey, how you doing?
	Elliot, this is when you talk.
	We don't want this guy on our ballot.
	Hang on, we lost you.
	Start again.
	We lost you.
	Start again, Elliot.
	Couldn't the blue states use the indictment or anything else to decide they don't want to have Trump on their ballot for the president?
	No, because there's only three conditions for being a president of the United States.
	You know what they are, right?
	Natural born citizen, over 36, and 14 years resident.
	Unless they change the constitution, you can't add any other requirements for being president.
	Got it?
	Elliot.
	I feel like E.T.
	Elliot.
	Alright, line one, Glenn, Arizona.
	Yes sir, so the question I have, and I don't know if I've heard anybody bring this up, but The Democrats are playing checkers while conservatives play chess.
	So have the Democrats not thought about, when Trump gets back in there, that this isn't a precedent to indict Obama and Biden?
	Well you know this is exactly what I don't know if you're listening earlier on I was discussing this with I think was Greg Jarrett where I said Ben Shapiro tweeted this at the weekend that you know what goes around comes around if they do this to Trump then we can you know prosecute other presidents and it's like
	No, Shapiro, because A, conservatives or the establishment don't have any testicular fortitude, and B, we don't really want to be those people because then the whole system collapses.
	But Glenn, do you think, if you've seen the Republican establishment for the last, you know, 20 years, do you expect to see that?
	I don't.
	I would only believe and think that it's possible if Trump gets back in there.
	Yeah, but Trump doesn't control DAs.
	This is a local DA.
	Right?
	You're the president.
	Yes, I'm thinking about going after Biden for China.
	Oh, well, yeah.
	I mean, look, they have unleashed the genie from the bottle, so that's why they want to destroy this man.
	But we shall see.
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	Let's go to Jerry in Orange County, California.
	Jerry!
	What is with our callers today?
	I can't even hear if there's anybody there.
	Let's do the magic America first countdown.
	Five, four, three, no, off you go.
	Greg Arizona live five.
	Yeah, don't start counting.
	I'm here.
	All right.
	I don't know if it's too late or not.
	But I would like to call out all our friends that are there in in the district where President Trump is going to get his little arraignment joke clown show.
	And as many people as possible, build your sign to however you were assaulted, attacked, raped, robbed.
	Name it.
	You name it.
	I don't care what it is.
	And the top of your sign, and somebody smarter than me can figure out what to say, at the top of the sign says, they're indicting Trump.
	My killer goes free.
	My rapist, my larson goes free.
	Genius.
	Genius.
	I love it.
	For all those people who have been abused, assaulted, robbed, and raped under Alvin Bragg's tenure, you should be outside central booking.
	You should be there with a sign saying, I'm the victim of X. My attacker, my robber, went free.
	Greg, that's bloody superb.
	Stay on the line.
	Let's give Greg a copy of The War for America, a signed copy.
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	Yes.
	I did that on Friday.
	I got most of it over here.
	Oh good, alright.
	Let's start.
	I probably need to redo it though or get some more music.
	Yeah, I can give you some more.
	He already has the book, so he just wanted a flag instead.
	Oh, cool.
	Alright, um... So we got bananas?
	What a day.
	Enough is enough.
	I still can't believe last week was such an insane week.
	We started with the shooting and then ended with the indictment.
	I'm just like, my goodness.
	Um, can you give me... Alex, the last... No, that's good.
	Oh my gosh.
	Donald Trump Jr.
	just posted this.
	A fingerprint card with his dad's signature with a big middle finger raised.
	Ha!
	I like that.
	I like that.
	That's good.
	Just tell me Alex what the last three songs were that we put on that list and then I'll work backward from my Spotify songs.
	Okay.
	Question then, if they do a moke shot, should he be straight faced or should he have like a little grin?
	I would go with a grin.
	That's a toughie.
	I think he's a great smile.
	I think not a grin.
	No violence.
	No hate speech.
	Just happy warriors on America First.
	You can't break this family.
	What a great, great photograph.
	This is from Eric Trump's Twitter.
	They have a nice bloody plane.
	It's nice on the inside.
	He's watching the plane from the plane.
	They're inside Air Force One watching the footage on Fox of them landing.
	Watching it on the television inside.
	Oh my gosh.
	Good question.
	I'm going to put this survey out there.
	Eric's question was.
	It's interesting.
	Did you hear what Bernie said?
	They're not, according to his source, they're not going to do a mugshot tomorrow.
	I can't believe that.
	I think they're going to do a mugshot.
	If they do, what pose does the president strike?
	Is he flint-faced?
	Is he grimacing?
	Is he frowning?
	Is he grinning?
	Is he smiling?
	Does he just have a little twinkle in his eye?
	I think I'm gonna go for the positive.
	Not, you know, happy, but not doer either.
	Because that photograph, I think it's gonna shape the next 21 months.
	I think Judy's right.
	I think tomorrow morning, They might have re-elected President Trump for us.
	Alright, I promised the second half of Marjorie Taylor Greene's interview with Leslie Stahl and it was joyous.
	I can't believe, because this isn't live, they edited it, I can't believe the mainstream media actually let that out there because Leslie Stahl's reaction.
	Priceless.
	And things she says that are over-the-top, like... The Democrats are a party of pedophiles.
	I would definitely say so.
	They support grooming children.
	They are not pedophiles.
	Why would you say that?
	Democrats support... Even Joe Biden, the president, himself supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries.
	sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Yes, wow, okay, because I guess you know it's not the Republicans that are doing that.
	How long is that cut from that fake woman in the Biden administration, Eric?
	It is a 50 second cut.
	Play it quickly, now.
	You know, studies show that one supportive adult, one supportive adult for an LGBTQI plus kid can make all the difference in terms of preventing suicide, in terms of them being able to navigate the world and to adulthood and leading a happy, successful, productive life.
	One supportive adult.
	I'd love if that was always the parent, but it's not always a parent.
	Frequently it's a teacher, or a guidance counselor, or a coach, or another school personnel.
	This law forbids kids, essentially, from talking to these people.
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	Nein.
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	Whatever you say, Jack, you're the master race.
	I don't know if it's perfect or if you have to know German to understand that clip, because he says, first, you'd have to shoot me.
	And then the Highlander says, whatever you say.
	I love it.
	It's one of my favorite, favorite moments from one of my favorite, favorite movies.
	I was 15 years old when this came out.
	We are celebrating Highlander with my co-host and buddy.
	He is the host of the Mr. Reagan YouTube channel and the Alpha Critic, Chris Coles.
	What do you think of this movie?
	Well, before we started recording, you said the words, no bad things shall be said of this film.
	I said that.
	I said that to my team here, because Eric, I think, is not fully convinced of the genre.
	You are permitted to express your opinion because you are my co-host.
	Well, I will say that Highlander is a weird movie.
	Because I'm trying to look at it in the sense of, like, what would a modern audience, somebody growing up today that doesn't know, like, even that shot is weird.
	So much about this film is weird.
	But you are right to love this movie, and I'll tell you why.
	This movie has one of the most bizarre but most brilliant, I guess what you would call, mythologies of the modern era.
	You know, I love films and I love stories that create an entire mythology, and it works.
	It's encapsulated, it's done well, and I forgot, I actually forgot what, at the end of the film, was the reward.
	The prize!
	The prize!
	What is the prize?
	And I forgot what it was.
	And I was sitting there and I was thinking like, what is the prize?
	What is the prize?
	And when it was finally revealed, I was thinking, yes, that is a good prize.
	What else would you give an immortal, right?
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And the prize is, for those of you who haven't seen the film, and I will, this will be a spoiler alert, so close your ears if you don't want to hear it.
	You get a sort of universal telepathy.
	You can read the minds of any human being on the planet.
	You can, you know, feel their emotions.
	You can know, you know, what they're thinking.
	And this is actually an incredibly powerful superpower.
	You become Professor X, actually, in a way.
	Right.
	But beyond that, you get to live a normal life because you get to have children.
	And I think It's kind of inferred that you're no longer immortal.
	You get to live a normal life because he falls in love with his squeeze and he's allowed to stay with her.
	Why?
	Because as Sean Connery taught him, as Ramirez taught him, you mustn't fall in love.
	You mustn't get married because your wife will die.
	You will live on and they will age.
	So I think the ultimate prize is to no longer be an immortal.
	Yeah, because every romance you will ever have as an immortal will always end in tragedy, right?
	It will either end in your murder at the hands of another immortal, or it will end in the death of the woman that you love, right?
	And you can never have kids together, you can never have a normal life.
	And despite what our modern culture suggests, I do think that everyone at their core does want to meet a soulmate and, you know, live together in harmony and peace with somebody who they trust and love, you know?
	So why is it you said it's definitely weird I just I just I so enjoy you know one of the questions you asked very early on when we started making movies great again is would you want to live in the world the story the movie portrays I just love this world but tell us why it's weird.
	Well I will actually I agree with you on that.
	Can I just jump in here?
	Can I just jump in here?
	I met the stuntman.
	So I used to be a member of the British Film Institute, and this guy, the first guy to get his head cut off, is actually a professional stuntman.
	And I got to meet him at a lecture with my best buddy, and he explained, you know how they do the sparks when the swords are clashing each other?
	They weren't animated on.
	Do you know how those sparks were done?
	Did they have magnesium paint or something like that?
	No, no, no.
	It's actually electric.
	That's a good guess.
	So they had a car battery, and they had one lead going up the actor's sleeve to his sword.
	The other pole of the same battery went up the sleeve of the other guy, and they short-cir- If you've ever short-circuited a car battery, there's just sparks fly everywhere.
	And they were actually short-circuiting a car battery as they were fencing.
	Oh, that's genius!
	Yeah!
	I mean, it's just so low-tech!
	But it's a bit dangerous, but you know... Well, you know what was interesting?
	I noticed that oftentimes they would hit something and the sparks wouldn't just fly from like, you know, what you might expect a cinematic metal clashing metal produce a couple of sparks.
	It would, like, sustain sparks.
	Yeah, right!
	And I'm like, is this some kind of, like, magic of the immortals or something?
	I'm not really sure what was going on.
	That explanation, uh, it makes, it all makes a lot more sense now in my head.
	Uh, look, the reason this movie is weird, I would say, is because A little bit of the mythology isn't fully explained.
	There are some things that aren't fully explained.
	So you have to kind of fill in the gaps.
	But the thing that bothers me the most is that he's not Scottish, he doesn't have a Scottish accent, and I don't buy the explanation that, oh, well, he's lived all over the world and therefore he has a weird accent.
	If that was true, that would have been true only in the today, right?
	That's because he's got a bad Scottish accent.
	When he's in Scotland, it's a French guy trying to do a Scottish accent.
	I mean, he barely spoke English.
	They watched Greystoke, right?
	Which came out two years beforehand.
	They thought he was great.
	Well, in Greystoke, he's grunting most of the time.
	They hired him.
	He signed the contract.
	Then the producer met him, and the guy was like, thick French accent.
	They had to...
	They had to ADR, they had to loop this movie.
	Christoph Lambert ADR'd this movie for five weeks, Chris.
	Right.
	Five weeks for a two-hour movie.
	This is as good as it got, by the way.
	Oh, sorry, that was my, uh, my coffee.
	Uh, and, and it's, and, and he, like, Salt in the wound, they bring in Sean Connery, one of the best known Scottish actors in history, probably the best known, one of the best actors ever in history, to play the Egyptian Spaniard that's supposed to mentor him.
	I know you're talking like this the whole time, you know, and you're just thinking like, Bring in a Scotsman to play the Scottish guy.
	Bring in an Egyptian to play the Egyptian guy.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	The whole thing was just, like, mental.
	What I heard, what Kurt told me, was that the director was a little bit foo-foo and maybe he had a thing for Lambert.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	I mean, the director had only made one movie before that, Razorback, about a killer feral pig in Australia.
	I'm not kidding.
	He was a music video director.
	Yeah, he was famous especially for the biggest Duran Duran music videos.
	Very, very sought-after music video guy, but he'd done this... I've actually seen it.
	Funny enough because it's Peter Jackson's one of Peter Jackson's favorite movies the guy who made Lord of the Rings Loved Razorback, so I thought I'm gonna check this out a little it is about a giant 400 pound killer Feral pig it's a horror movie about a pig that eats people that was the the director's first movie Russell Mulcahy but Beyond that come on Sean what an amazing performance Chris Oh, for real.
	And I think he only shot for like a couple of weeks or something.
	He brought him in for like a few days and he did this whole performance and I think I heard that he refused to practice sword fighting because he had done sword fighting in other films and he was like, I know how to do this, don't tell me.
	And then he got injured several times because he refused to do the choreography or whatever.
	But his performance is stellar and this actually brings me to a point that It has nothing really to do with this film.
	It just has to do with Hollywood and acting in general.
	There are some actors who are so insistent that what they do is this brilliant craft.
	You have like – I don't know.
	I'm not going to – Dustin Hoffman, right?
	Or something like that.
	Yeah, right.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And they're like, oh, you know, I suffer for my art and it's blah, blah, blah, all this bullcrap.
	And I'm like, he comes in, he's like, oh, watch the script or I'll say stupid lines.
	And he does it.
	It's absolutely epic.
	And it's just like, you are playing make believe.
	Yeah, you're having fun.
	You're having fun.
	You get paid millions of dollars to play make-believe.
	There was some guy recently, some African actor, who came out, I noticed on Twitter, and he said, oh, I don't get paid enough, and I'm pretty sure it's because I'm a black actor.
	Oh my god.
	And it's like, really?
	You think Hollywood, who's essentially anti-white male now, is not paying you enough?
	Hang on, hang on.
	Let's be accurate.
	Anti-white Heterosexual male.
	Let's have some accuracy.
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	From the dawn of time we came, moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the last.
	No one has ever known we were among you.
	Until now.
	Here we are, born to be kings.
	We're the princes of the universe.
	Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
	Did you, as you were researching this, did you find out the story of the voiceover from the beginning with Sean Connery, Chris?
	Are you talking about the reason for the echo?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but you explaining it is actually better.
	In fact, do we have a bathroom that you could explain it in?
	No, no, no.
	I will not be doing it sitting on a toilet like Sean Connery did.
	So, as is usual, the producers and after the test screening say, we need something more.
	We need an explication.
	We need something at the beginning.
	Sean Connery had whatever done his two weeks of shooting and so they sent him the script to read for the opening which he did sitting on the can in his bathroom in either his mansion in Spain or his mansion in Where is it?
	The Keys and that echo is because he's in the bathroom, but it worked didn't it Chris?
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, it gives it this sort of ominous sound, this sort of mystical, ethereal sound.
	It's absolutely brilliant.
	There is a lot about this movie that I feel like a lot of effort went into certain things.
	Like there's this shot at the very beginning of the wrestling match.
	This camera just goes almost like flies around the stadium.
	And I honestly have no idea how they did that.
	I can only assume that there was some kind of rig set up It was.
	It was the rig they now use.
	It's a kind of proto version of the one they use for NFL football games.
	They had four wires pinned to the corner of the garden and the rig can fly anywhere and they used it to fly above the players You'll actually see it when you first see the Kurgan on his horse and the rig comes up from above him.
	There's this massive shadow come over the Kurgan.
	That's the camera being flown in on the wires, but it looks just like some ominous shadow.
	I was watching the DP saying, oh my gosh, we couldn't hide the shadow.
	And he said, but it looked pretty ominous anyway.
	So yeah, this was like proto NFL technology.
	Yeah, and when I'm watching them, I'm just thinking, how did they do that back then?
	They didn't have drones?
	No.
	So they didn't have computers.
	They couldn't do anything with computers.
	And then they have all these match cuts.
	I don't know if you noticed this from the beginning to the end.
	Whenever they would go back in time to Scotland, there would always be these brilliant match cuts, like they would be going up through a fish tank or something like that.
	The first one, which they actually call it the Highlander cut now.
	Because this music video guy introduced it.
	It's not a music video style throughout, but he did things that most movies weren't doing.
	And it's at the end of that duel at the beginning, Guy gets his head cut off, and the camera pans through the ceiling of the car park, hits this black wall, and then suddenly you come up through the soil of the highlands.
	It's been stolen a million times before, but I think it's genius.
	Oh, it is.
	I mean, you can tell that a lot of work went into, you know, the cinematography and really trying to get the shots right and stuff like that.
	And then you've got, you know, a lot of weird choices, like I said, like hiring a guy that has a French accent to play a Scottish guy and stuff like that.
	And so there is this kind of inconsistency, I think, and things that I don't know if modern audiences are going to love, but it does end up creating this, what people call, I don't know, like critics called like the mise-en-scene of the film.
	Something kind of special, something kind of interesting that has made this into the legend that it is.
	I mean this is a film that people still talk about to this day and it spawned so many – I mean not just people don't talk about it.
	It's like a cult classic.
	I mean people absolutely love this movie.
	And then you've got all these spinoffs, right?
	You had the second one, which was probably the worst film ever made.
	Let's put the posters up.
	We have the posters of 2, 3, 4 and 5.
	So this is 2 where they – it's like the midichlorians with George Lucas in Star Wars where he utterly destroys the concept of the force.
	The whole point about the mythology in the first one is they didn't explain stuff, which was cool.
	You could kind of imagine.
	Why Sean Connery being an Obi-Wan Kenobi to Christoph Lambert?
	Because they should kill each other, right?
	And then, in the second movie, they destroy it all by saying, well, they're actually aliens from another planet.
	Absolute bloody disaster.
	A fun movie, but nothing to do with Highlander.
	Then Highlander Endgame, Highlander The Source, and then there's a couple of other things I sent you, Eric.
	What else?
	What other images did I send you?
	Well, there's a third film that wasn't listed here, but there was a third film, actually.
	Yeah, and then there was the TV show, of course, like over a hundred episodes.
	There was a, there was a cartoon show as well, a kind of, you know, manga cartoon show as well.
	But, but the one, the first one is the real one.
	And it has, it has ascended to kind of cult.
	It didn't make any money.
	I mean, it lost money.
	It cost what?
	It cost, uh, 12 million, 19 million to make and made 12 million.
	So it lost $7 million.
	But then when VHS came out, When it started being shown on TV.
	This is a cult movie today, Chris!
	Yeah, yeah, and it's true of a lot of 80s films that are, I think, were a little bit underrated, and then they find their audience a little bit later.
	Maybe they're poorly marketed.
	I know that the poster for this particular film, the first movie, was terrible.
	It was just Christophe Lambert's face.
	Show this.
	And it was hideous.
	No, no, not that one.
	That was the later one.
	The black and white one.
	This was the original.
	I mean, who in marketing a black and white film?
	It looks like a mugshot photograph.
	It looks like Michael Myers from Halloween.
	And you have no idea what it is.
	There's no concept of fantasy, swordplay, damsels in distress.
	I mean, this is white-bombed.
	Yeah, this is definitely white-bombed.
	And the director knew that.
	And the director complained about it.
	And, like, fair enough, you know.
	But, you know, there is something a little bit creepy about Christoph Lambert in this movie.
	I think because he's blind.
	Apparently.
	Without his glasses, he's blind.
	He was riding into some of the scenes on his horse with his glasses and he forgot to take them off and they had to reshoot the whole bloody thing.
	Is that true?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so he didn't speak English when he started the film.
	He was blind.
	But, you know, he looked good in Tarzan.
	Right.
	So let's bring him in.
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	Let's come in with the two shortcuts of the Oh no, let's go come in with the church.
	Yes.
	I have something to say.
	Amen.
	It's better to burn out than to fade away.
	Clancy Brown, the evil Kurgan on sacred ground, with a line that he improvised.
	It's better to burn out than to fade away after sitting there, apparently for literally hours on end, listening on an old school Walkman to heavy metal to get himself into the mood.
	This is the kind of antagonist you want for this kind of movie, isn't it, Chris?
	Oh yeah, I mean, I honestly think that he is somewhat of an iconic villain.
	Yeah.
	The Kurgan.
	And, yeah, like, this is, you know, what you were talking about, about killing the concept in the second film, is to me, like, it's almost like they made it into a sci-fi.
	Yes, they did!
	And Star Wars kind of did the same thing.
	They went from a fantasy sci-fi to, like, hard sci-fi when they did the prequels, right, with the Midichlorians.
	And there is this tendency, I think, for Hollywood to go, oh, well, let's take this thing that has remnants of, like, Christianity and traditional ideas, and let's make it into some kind of, like, science fiction-y thing.
	And I really hate that, because there is a soul to this movie, right?
	So, they're not allowed to fight on holy ground.
	Yes.
	To me, this indicates that there is some kind of Like holy or, you know, some supernatural.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	An idea like that.
	God decided that someone must be worthy of this thing.
	And we're going to have a fight between good and evil on earth.
	And whoever gets, you know, whoever wins that wins this prize.
	It is a little bit of a weird thing.
	Like why would the method by which the winner is chosen be Beheadings, but you know, whatever.
	That's the concept of the Highlander and it makes it exciting and it makes it fun for a movie.
	But yeah, but it does give it this almost sort of a Christian identity.
	They're in a church.
	The one man is pious.
	He lights a candle for his dead wife.
	And the other man is, you know, grotesque and a heathen and appears to have no respect for God or the church.
	And so you can see that contrast.
	And anyone in the 80s who has any kind of respect for Christianity, which at the time was much more normal than it is today, would have seen that as truly evil, you know.
	And part of another character, I think, is, look, the set design, the production values, they didn't have a lot of money.
	But for example, all the scenes with the Kurgan and the Clan MacLeod in Scotland, they're stunning.
	I mean, they were in Scotland.
	They got hundreds of local extras to dress up as these Scottish warriors in the battle scenes.
	It's up there with some of the best.
	I had forgotten how much of this film is the backstory is set back in the the old Highlander days you know I do of course I remember that Sean Connery was the mentor but I forgot just how much of the movie is this it's I would say it's almost half the film yeah is set back in time and yeah they do such a great job and it's I almost like thought well it's really weird because you know a historically accurate you know period film
	It's a real effort, you know.
	You have to actually get all these people together and all these props and find locations without telephone poles and stuff like that.
	Or remove them.
	They had to remove them.
	That castle is real.
	That bridge is real.
	They had to remove everything.
	The TV antenna, the telegraph poles, all of them.
	Right, yeah, and it's a real effort, and they obviously they cared a lot about this film, and then, and I don't know at what point you want to get to this, but then they painted over the entire movie with arguably one of the most legendary soundtracks in film history, which I think that when you combine the script, which I think is a genius concept and a very good script,
	With the effort that really went into this project, and then you paint that legendary soundtrack over the top of it, I don't know if, and obviously Sean Connery's in there, you know, being a genius as he always is, I don't know if this film could have done poorly, even though it didn't do particularly well in the box office, I don't know if it could have just faded into obscurity.
	Yeah, it had to be something that people loved.
	There's no way a movie, it doesn't matter what the movie is, you've got a soundtrack from Queen and Sean Connery.
	Sooner or later, that movie will become important.
	We'll talk about the soundtrack and we'll play a little bit of the music because Queen is the greatest band in human history, by the way.
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	Let's have a couple of the balances.
	This is also one of my favorite scenes.
	This is the training montage with Sean Connery in the middle of the lock.
	Play cut.
	Play cut.
	The LANC balance.
	I don't like boats.
	I don't like water.
	I'm a man, not a fish.
	You complain endlessly.
	And then he tosses him into the loch and he realizes he can't die because he can't drown.
	Let's talk for a second about Christoph Lambert.
	So my ever-suffering son was so good as to watch this movie with me last night.
	And he said, and he'd seen it, I'd shown it to him as a kid, I don't know, 10 years ago.
	And he said, halfway through the movie said, That guy's really ugly.
	Christoph Lambert is not your average leading man.
	Forget the accent, the fact that he's blind, this massive forehead, the deep-set eyes.
	Look, he kind of works in a way because the love story with Heather, he sells that love story.
	And then the little girl Rachel, we'll talk about Rachel in a second, that's an amazing sub-story.
	But he's not a really good- this isn't, you know, Marlon Brando in my opinion.
	No, no, no, no.
	And especially when you put him up against Sean Connery.
	Sean Connery, like, could be his father.
	Oh my gosh.
	You know, and he's like ten times more handsome still as an old man.
	So you do feel a little bit bad for him if you think about it in that context.
	But look, he is the hero of the story.
	I think there is something about in the 1980s they didn't actually- and this is actually something even back in the You know, in, like, the early cinema.
	You know, I often talk about one of my favorite actors of all time being William Powell.
	If you put him up against Clark Gable, you know, or, excuse me, or Cary Grant, or somebody like that, William Powell pales in comparison in terms of looks, but he is so absolutely charming.
	He'll just, like, charm the, you know, brains out of anybody.
	That's a bit like, wouldn't you say Bogart is the same?
	Absolutely right.
	Absolutely right.
	And so you get, you do find actors that are so unbelievably charming, it doesn't really matter that they're not the most handsome guy in the world.
	Now, I mean, I think today they care a little bit more about how handsome certain actors are in certain kind of roles.
	When you find somebody like Sean Connery, dashingly handsome guy, excellent actor, I mean, that's obviously like the holy grail of stars.
	That's why they become a superstar.
	You know, and maybe this is the reason that Lambert didn't become You know, a prominent, you know, A-list actor for the entirety of his career, uh, but he did get better and better, uh, you know, as an actor, speak- he learned how to speak English, you know, that's- That helps, that helps.
	That helps, that helps a little bit.
	So, yeah, you know, he did make a career for himself, he did do a few other pretty good films, Mortal Kombat and stuff like that, so, you know, he was a- he was a known actor, I mean, he was a successful guy.
	This scene, another mind-blowing moment.
	That this thing they found in Scotland, this peak a thousand feet up, this jagged thing, and they have two guys, eventually they'll just put the stuntmen up there.
	Amazing.
	Then the running with the stag.
	I mean, it's just these mythical moments that are just so much fun.
	When I was watching this last time, the stag scene, I thought, what?
	This is weird.
	Because these aren't superheroes, you know?
	They just can't die.
	They don't have any actual magical powers or anything.
	But it makes sense because they can kind of feel the stag.
	It's almost like that little bit of telepathy before, you know, the end.
	It's the hint.
	It's the hint of the prize.
	It's the hint.
	You're right.
	That's exactly what it is.
	That's exactly what it is.
	And it's explained a little bit better, I think, actually, in the show.
	Because I grew up with the show.
	Okay.
	I grew up with the TV show.
	And in the show, there was a mechanism that they didn't have in the film, which I thought was actually a good idea.
	Which was that whenever you killed an immortal, you sort of took the powers of all the immortals they had killed as well, and you become more powerful.
	Now, how that power manifested, I have no idea because...
	It didn't seem to make you a better sword fighter, but... Don't get technical.
	I do like that concept.
	Don't get technical.
	Don't get technical.
	Don't think too much about it, guys.
	Don't think too much about it.
	Did you find out... Oh, this.
	This is the scene on top of the cliff.
	I mean, just incredible.
	Incredible.
	Let's talk about how this was born, because this was a 20-year-old kid.
	Do you know the story of the scriptwriter of this guy?
	I don't know this story, no.
	So Gregory Wyden, I hope I'm not going to piss you off with this, because you are a scriptwriter and an actor as well.
	And totally unsuccessful, yeah.
	This is Gregory Wyden, who was studying, you know, movies and script writing at UCLA.
	He was paying the bills as a full-time firefighter.
	That was his job.
	He was actually a firefighter.
	And he writes the story, and he sells it, and it gets made.
	Well, you know what, he deserves it because this is an epic story.
	It does explain, I mean, the fact that he's 20 does explain why there's a few inconsistencies and there's a few things that don't make any sense and stuff, but it is an excellent, like I say, there is a certain mythos to it, a modern mythos, but it does feel like a historically legitimate story that, you know, could exist and It's great.
	I think it's a great, great modern myth.
	I think so.
	And where do you stand on this?
	Because for me, my son every 10 minutes was saying, but hang on a second, that doesn't make sense.
	And when do they become immortal?
	And why is Sean Connery advising him?
	So he was like, you know, introducing all these things.
	I like it.
	I don't like things to be over-explained.
	It's like Alien.
	Why is Alien a good movie?
	You have no idea where the xenomorph's from.
	You have no idea why it landed on the planet.
	You have no idea why the navigator engineered this giant thing in the middle of the spacecraft is there.
	But you don't need to know!
	In the 80s they were very smart about not explaining everything and leaving a lot up to the imagination.
	We don't do that as much anymore.
	I don't do that so much in my writing.
	I will try to explain everything and I think it's a mistake.
	I think a lot of times you should leave a lot up to the imagination.
	You shouldn't have to explain everything.
	But, yeah, I mean, there's no real excuse for, like, logical inconsistencies or plot holes.
	That's the point.
	My son said, you can create a universe, but it has to be consistent.
	Right.
	And I do think, actually, they do a great job of that in this film.
	I would say that the problems with the story are so minor that I think most people won't even notice them.
	It's just like, you know, if I'm watching it the second or third time around, maybe I'll be like, wait a minute, actually, hold on a second.
	But yeah, the first time you're watching it, you're definitely not going to be thinking about that stuff.
	And like I said, it spawned all these sequels and stuff.
	Like I said, I grew up on the TV show, And honestly, like, this story, this concept is so brilliant that it lends itself to multiple projects.
	It makes sense that this sort of, like, played out, you know, into direct-to-video terribleness, you know, over the years.
	It just kind of, like, kept being reproduced over and over and over again.
	It's such a great concept.
	But it's a great, great mythology.
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	Alright, come in with live aid.
	Come in with the music.
	A bit of Queen.
	There's no time for all There's no place for all What is this thing that you dream?
	It slips away before my eyes So there's two themes.
	Number one, I wasn't joking earlier.
	Queen, for me, is the ultimate rock band of all time.
	And here, they're doing a soundtrack for a movie, which was quite unusual.
	I mean, they did Flash Gordon and this, basically, another movie we will be reviewing, by the way.
	and and that the two most famous songs that come out of the soundtrack and don't forget Michael Caiman legend was was you know the the guy in charge of music Queen comes in to do a couple of songs was that one that's the love story he wants to live forever um Very poignant part of the story, Heather, this Highland lass who he falls in love with and then of course dies because he's an immortal.
	And then the other one, and here we have the B-roll of the official music video, this is Princes of the Universe, where they actually have clips from the movie.
	I mean, wow.
	If you're making a movie, and it's a fun movie, and it's an action movie, can you do better than have Freddie Mercury sing your songs?
	Well, so, okay, so because the director was a, you know, was a music video director, so he knew a lot of these guys, you know, and he had thought about different kind of musicians to come in and do the music for.
	I don't think that at the time, they probably didn't, I don't think they knew that Queen was going to become this legendary band for all eternity.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, when you have a popular band that exists at the time, maybe Michael Jackson or something like that, right?
	Occasionally, you know, okay, this person is going to be considered legendary, you know, 20, 30, 40, 50 years down the line.
	I don't know if they knew that about Queen, but for whatever reason, they asked Queen, could you do this?
	And they were like, yeah, yeah, sure, let's do it.
	It seems almost like somebody today would consider that to be selling out.
	But if you're an artist, if you're a creative type of person, it's just a fun project to do, I would think.
	Right.
	You know, and they did it.
	It was the theme song of the TV show.
	Uh, so anytime you watch the TV show, you got the, um, Princes of the Universe theme song at the beginning.
	It, like, you know, made you go, oh yeah!
	You know, back in the days when they had theme songs, you know?
	Oh, we're gonna see people's heads get cut off with swords!
	You know?
	And, uh, and my buddy Kurt, who I said is the expert on this more than I am, he absolutely loves Highlander.
	He got into Queen because of the show.
	Oh, funny!
	He watched the show, loved the theme song, got into Queen because of that, and that became one of his favorite of all time bands, and he said, and he was into kind of like, he was like 15, he was into like cartoons, so he wanted to be an animator, listening to Queen, and he was like, I'm pretty sure my dad thought there was something weird up with me because I'm Watching cartoons, I'm listening to Queen, you know, but you know, obviously, you know, whatever, whatever their politics, they were legendary, absolutely legendary musicians.
	Utterly utterly and part of why this eventually became a cult cult movie.
	All right, I want to recognize some of the other actors, the women as well.
	So I mentioned her Heather, Betty Edney, I think is her name.
	Oh, sorry, Beattie, Beattie Edney.
	That's Heather.
	She sells it as as McLeod's love interest.
	And then here we have Rachel.
	I love this.
	For me, this sub-story of the secretary in Nash's apartment and office in the 80s, and then we find out she's the little girl he rescued during World War II from the Nazi.
	This is why I love this movie.
	I mean, those little intricate moments of fun.
	They, you know, the guy writing this script, I don't know if he had all the parts in place or if, you know, the director put some of it in there or what happened exactly, but there's a lot of stuff that I don't think is necessarily what you might naturally think of when you want to make an action film about immortals.
	Yeah.
	But this idea of the relationships that cannot continue, you know, because, you know, the people that you're with are aging and you're not.
	That's such a brilliant aspect of it to focus on because I do think it's the thing that is going to bring you a lot of trauma.
	It's going to be very traumatic.
	It's going to have a big impact on your life.
	But this is a great thing because he essentially becomes her father, really.
	He rescues this girl during World War II.
	Uh, it becomes, essentially becomes her father, which you don't really realize at first, I don't think.
	I mean, you see her, I didn't even think about this, any of it, I didn't really understand because it's cut in a kind of a...
	Uh, enigmatic way.
	It's a little bit difficult to follow if you're watching it the first time.
	You have to pay attention.
	You have to recognize that the character Sheila Gish, the older woman in her 50s, you have to pay attention.
	He calls her Rachel, and then you have to pay attention.
	And he says it's a sort of magic.
	Yeah, it's a sort of, and then you have to pay attention that when he rescues the little girl, he says, what's your name?
	If you don't catch that she says Rachel, you're not going to connect.
	And the repeating of the line, it's like a kind of magic or whatever.
	Yes, when he says it, when he goes away.
	Yeah, exactly.
	When he leaves the final time, you know, leaves her.
	And he says that at the beginning.
	But because of his accent, it's hard to follow some of the stuff he says.
	You know, if you've got headphones on, it's a little bit easier.
	But yeah, she's the little girl and she becomes like his secretary, essentially.
	Like, you know, like your daughter might at your company where you work or something.
	She might become your business partner or whatever it is.
	And that's a beautiful moment.
	I thought there was a missed opportunity.
	She says goodbye.
	Nash, whatever, I forget his first name.
	She says goodbye Nash.
	She should have said goodbye daddy or something like that, right?
	If she had said something like that, I think it would have been a lot clearer and a lot more touching.
	Like, oh, that's her father, really?
	That she considers him her father.
	And it's a bizarre thing because she's obviously older than him.
	- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But that's her dad, you know.
	- Right.
	- It's a cool story, yeah. - Then we have, we gotta recognize James Cosmo, the famous Scottish actor who plays his fellow kinsman who became a huge name in "Game of Thrones" and then in the "Jack Ryan" series.
	And then the thing that, you know, when you watch a favorite movie, 'cause I must have seen this, I don't know, 30, 40 times, When you watch it again, and you're working, because I was working last night as I was watching it, you have a more critical eye.
	You're sitting there with your phone, you're making notes.
	And this is the thing that they say is the hardest.
	The dialogue is really smart.
	It's funny.
	The barbed dialogue, we've got a couple of examples.
	We love this is from Ramirez.
	This is Sean Connery.
	When they're when in the training, this is a little bit of a critique of Christophe Lambert's fighting style.
	Crude and slow, Klansman.
	Your attack was no better than that of a clumsy child.
	That is a catchphrase between me and my best buddy in England.
	Crude and slow!
	That is what it has become for the last 40 years, a catchphrase.
	And then when he's giving him a little bit of advice of what not to do in the future.
	Never lose your temper.
	If your head comes away from your neck, it's over.
	Just the delivery and then and then the sarky, the sarcasm when they arrest Nash.
	He's in the police station.
	The cop who hates him says, are you a homosexual, Nash?
	And he says, why are you cruising for a bit of ass?
	I mean, it's just so good.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, the dialogue is written... clearly, the guys who developed this film had really worked out what this world was that they were living in, right?
	And so the dialogue is, even though it's a little bit poetic at times, it's a little bit almost too clever at times, It is pretty much kind of like the natural kind of barbs and, you know, that you would say to like a buddy or somebody that you're having a little bit of a conflict with or something like that.
	It does give a realism to the world.
	There are things about this that are overacted, that are overplayed, that are a little bit almost cartoonish.
	But it is, but I do think there's enough there that is subtle and smart and clever and quick that it does create a realism that, okay, look, in the 1980s they didn't have the special effects standards and the cinematography standards that we have today.
	It does look gritty, right?
	It does look gritty.
	But hang on a second, but hang on a second.
	I wanted to say this earlier.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It doesn't smack of being an 80s movie.
	I mean, some movies from this period are just dated from the first picture frame.
	This, you don't go, oh my gosh, that's so dated.
	You fall into it, right?
	Yeah, I mean, I would say the same thing is true of, like, Indiana Jones, right?
	Indiana Jones actually benefits from not being set in the 80s, though.
	Right.
	So it's set in, like, this is actually set in 1986, or whenever it is that the film came out, and yet it still is able to overcome that hurdle of looking too much like the 1980s.
	It's possibly because he's wearing a trench coat a lot of the time, Uh, the tennis shoes are definitely 80s.
	Yes.
	Look at that.
	Like, if you see the tennis shoes, that's a giveaway.
	But back then, I mean, when I watched that movie, I had a trench coat and I had to wear my tennis shoes with my trench coat.
	I mean, it had to be done.
	If Highlander did it, I did it.
	Yeah, and the cars are maybe a little bit more older, like the late 60s or 70s cars, some of them.
	So, you know, it does kind of give a general sense of, like, America.
	Just, it's like America in the city.
	It's a little bit grittier.
	But I think there's something good about that.
	I always talk about this, whenever we do these films where it's not as clean as you would expect a film to be today, there's something about the film that I love.
	The actual celluloid, the film grain, and that sort of stuff.
	Like Star Wars.
	I hate the cleaned up version of Star Wars.
	You need to see the old actual film grain Star Wars.
	And this is kind of the same.
	The grittiness adds something to it that we just don't really get that much of today.
	If at all.
	I don't think we get it at all.
	And one of the gritty lines I love, or the comedy moments, is with the hot dog vendor and the policemen are standing there and the black hot dog vendor's reading the newspaper about the murders and says, what does incompetent mean?
	I mean, it's just such a great line.
	All right.
	Let's play.
	It's the finale.
	Let's do it.
	Let's play the ultimate line from the movie Highlander.
	There can be only one.
	A very French, there can be only one.
	But then, a massive explosion.
	That's an old factory that they pretended was the basement of the Silver Cup studios.
	Gotta give it to them.
	That action scene, that duel at the end, pretty cool.
	Yeah, very cool.
	Very cool.
	And the special effects and everything, that's what a lot of the special effects budget went into, I think, is that specific moment, because that quickening was pretty intense, pretty special effects heavy.
	And actually the line, even though it looks a little bit I mean, especially because this guy's a music video director, you see some of the stylized 1980s music video stuff in this movie, especially that moment.
	But the timing is good.
	It's probably not quite as good as Hasta La Vista Baby, which to me is the best one-liner in any film in the history of the world.
	I'm actually surprised.
	Thinking about this right now, I'm actually really surprised this did not do better in the theaters.
	Yeah.
	And it really is probably only because of that gosh darn poster.
	Because back then, you know, you didn't have the internet.
	You couldn't just stream clips all the time.
	That stupid, stupid poster.
	I have an issue to pick, a bone to pick with my colleague, Eric.
	He didn't get the French duel scene.
	I love it.
	I love the French duel scene where the Frenchman tries to kill Christophe again and again and again, doesn't kill him, fails to kill him for insulting his wife.
	And he's super drunk.
	And then he shoots his butler.
	I think, see, you gotta have some comedy, right?
	It's fantastic!
	Yeah.
	Yeah, actually, you know, it's funny.
	I didn't really think too much about how funny this movie was as I was watching it, but there were moments when I laughed out loud.
	Right.
	Because you really are, you really are thinking of, because the story is so dang good, right?
	The concept is so dang good.
	You really are thinking about like, well, what is the prize at the end?
	And the only, I think there is one other gripe I have about this film, which is that there are, there are not enough Immortals at the end there, right?
	Because this is supposed to be the sort of end times for the Immortals, right?
	This is the moment when they're all called to one place, and there was supposed to be another fight between the Kurgan and another guy, I think he's Indian or something, and it was set in like an office building with like IBM computers or something, and they have this fight, but that footage was lost.
	They didn't have the money for all the IBM computers.
	Right.
	So, so all that, all that, uh, well, I think they shot it.
	I think they shot it.
	They did.
	But it, but there's some photos.
	I saw some photos.
	Yes.
	Wow.
	But they, but they, but the, but the footage didn't make it into the final cut for some reason.
	And then all the, all the footage that didn't make it into the movie was burned in a factory.
	So they don't, we can't see that.
	Yeah.
	It's a tragedy.
	Yeah.
	But, but I would have liked to see maybe even like three or four more little moments, not maybe full fight scenes.
	Did Chris Coles just out geek me?
	Write this day down in memory.
	He had a piece of movie trivia.
	No, I forgot.
	You just reminded me.
	I knew that all along.
	I knew that all along.
	The eyes here, the demonic eyes.
	This was a weird moment as well.
	You mean the black contacts that the Kurgan gets at the end?
	Yes.
	These are the kind of inconsistencies I don't understand.
	I love that they did that, but that's not explained at all.
	No.
	And I feel like the Immortals have little powers here and there that they don't.
	Alright, I'm going to instigate a new tradition here at Making Movies Great Again.
	We will be rating each movie at the end of our review.
	Today we will be using the metric of Toledo Salamancas.
	and I'm okay with it.
	All right.
	I'm going to instigate a new tradition here of making movies great again.
	We will be rating each movie at the end of our review.
	Today, we will be using the metric of Toledo Salamancas.
	How many Toledo Salamancas out of five do you give Highlander?
	Out of five?
	No.
	Okay, let's not do five.
	Alright, ten.
	Alright, ten.
	Okay.
	Uh, I'm going to give it... six and a half.
	Oh!
	Oh!
	Yeah, I know.
	You difficult, you hard mistress.
	I'm gonna give Highlander... I'm sorry, I'm gonna give it seven and a half to Laedo Salamancas.
	I'm surprised that you, you actually didn't give it more, but let's, let's, let's try to, let's, before we actually like solidify this ranking system.
	Yes.
	Let's both say what are, what, like a movie or two that would be a full on 10.
	A 10?
	For us.
	Uh, Raiders of the Lost Ark, uh, Casablanca, um, um, Star Wars, Jaws.
	Those are tens.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	You, you took my first one.
	So I will say, I was going to say Raiders is the first one.
	I will agree with you with Casablanca.
	I will agree with you with Casablanca.
	I would probably give Jaws a nine, even though I love, I love Jaws.
	And we do have to do that movie.
	Uh, and, uh, I would also probably say... Star Wars?
	Or do you have Star Wars?
	Star Wars is tough.
	I would probably give Star Wars a 10, but more so I, even though people love Empire, Raiders is actually my favorite Star Wars.
	I mean, Raiders.
	Return of the Jedi.
	Jedi is my favorite.
	What?
	Over Empire?
	You heathen.
	Alright, you're fired.
	You're fired.
	We will get back to that.
	Alright, last thing to do.
	Alright, we've given our votes.
	That was, yeah, seven and a half.
	Seven and a half Toledo Salamancas.
	I do believe it's a Mr. Reagan's choice.
	What shall we be reviewing a week from today?
	I want to just say real quick, the reason I would say six and a half isn't necessarily because that's what I think of the film.
	It's because I'm trying to review it in a way like if you've not seen Highlander, how much should I recommend people watch it?
	That's my take on it.
	Well then it should be ten.
	Everybody should see it once.
	Well, everybody should see it, but I mean, are you gonna love it?
	Like, I don't think you're gonna love it as much as, like, Raiders.
	Raiders is, like, a perfect film, you know?
	Correct.
	Okay, so what's the next film?
	I thought long and hard about this.
	I've got a lot of different options.
	I like this meandering back and forth between sort of comedy, lighthearted stuff and dark stuff.
	So I have a dark film, a darker film, a heavier film that I really, really, really want to get to.
	But before we get to it, it's a little bit later, it's a 90s film.
	Okay.
	So I probably shouldn't anyway, but we're going to anyway.
	We're going to get to there.
	But before that, I think we should go a little bit lighter.
	Elevate the mood slightly.
	Beverly Hills Cop.
	Oh, absolutely!
	Axl F. Totally.
	Axl Foley.
	Totally, totally.
	Love it, love it, love it.
	Another franchise.
	A little bit of a better franchise than the Highlander franchise, but a classic.
	In terms of the sequels, yeah.
	Yeah, in terms of the sequels, in terms of the sequels.
	Great choice.
	Super fun.
	Love it, love it, love it.
	Alright guys, follow this man on Twitter.
	It's Mr. Reagan USA YouTube.
	It's the Mr. Reagan channel.
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